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From: jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu (James Treworgy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Terminal Emulator in Window
Message-ID: <6529@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Date: 9 Feb 90 12:07:56 GMT
References: <9002090329.AA21631@astro.psu.edu> <22776@usc.edu>
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In article <22776@usc.edu>, papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
> In article <9002090329.AA21631@astro.psu.edu> antunes@ASTRO.PSU.EDU (Alex Antunes) writes:
> |Hello!  I have looked around, but I can't seem to find a terminal
> |emulator that will allow you to call it up within a window.  Is this
> |possible, and has anyone done it?  Ideally, I would wish to be able
> |to dial in to a mainframe in a half-sized window, and be able to
> |simultaneously be editing or such in another window I called up.
> |All the term-ems I've tried can be sent fron-to-back but cannot
> |be scaled down to coexist with the workbench.
> |  Any ideas?
> 
> A-Talk III works just fine with Workbench windows. In fact at each resize it 
> will recompute the no. cols and no. of rows, so if you are running under UNIX
> you could write a new termcap/terminfo that uses, for example, a 60x10 
> characters window and run emacs on it.  
> 

ONLINE! lets you use a window (commercial), and I am pretty sure VLT does too.
(I prefer a separate screen, though).
-- 
James A. Treworgy    -- No quote here for insurance reasons --
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